ARCHIVE - Landscapes of Change: Dry Falls » Alex http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls Writing & Mapping the Future Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:36:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 ARCHIVE - The Cliff of Broken Legs – Gallery http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/30/the-cliff-of-broken-legs-gallery/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/30/the-cliff-of-broken-legs-gallery/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:03:51 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/?p=3019 [imagebrowser id=41] Cliff of Broken Legs - 4 cliff of broken legs-13 cliff of broken legs-12 cliff of broken legs-11 cliff of broken legs-10 cliff of broken legs-9 cliff of broken legs-7 cliff of broken legs-6 cliff of broken legs-1 Cliff of Broken Legs -2 Cliff of Broken Legs - 5 Cliff of Broken Legs - 4 Cliff of Broken Legs - 3

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ARCHIVE - Shore of Weeping Clouds – Collage Essay http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/24/shore-of-weeping-clouds-2/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/24/shore-of-weeping-clouds-2/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:44:10 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/?p=1672 Continue reading ]]> As I stand close to the water on the beach at Evergreen I picture a painting.  One that is changing from living, moving objects such as trees to dying still objects.  Although this change seems dull and full of nothing but dead things, it’s not.  The trees show light through bright orange and yellow colors.  The ground in the distance turns from green to bright orange and yellow as well, telling me it’s fall and things are coming to life, not dying.

Things are coming to life, not dying.  Small, new trees growing out of large, old dead ones.  The water comes up to the bending, graceful limbs of the trees.  Their elegant fingers trail through the waves.  They seem so old, and so bent.  Bent with age, bent with gravity, bent and bowed by time.  Time bends and breaks, grows and renews.  But it seems paused here now.

Bent with age, bent with gravity, bending to the ground, sweeping reaches.  A loon dives.  I swear it was a mammal.  The loon is a large bird, a curious bird.  I come closer and further, and closer still.  The air is filled with the relaxing noise of lapsing tide of lapsing time.

There is a maypole, wrapped in flesh.  The water is eating and the island is dying.  OH!  It’s from my dream again.  This is where the tombstones changed to crosses changed to a maypole.  The wind and waters dance around it.  The murk is in stasis holding love, while the wind pushes the littlewater over quickly, in a rush to catch the shore before it stands back up.

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ARCHIVE - Cliff of Broken Legs – Collage Essay http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/24/cliff-of-broken-legs-2/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/2012/10/24/cliff-of-broken-legs-2/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:41:47 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/dryfalls/?p=1622 Continue reading ]]> There’s a cliff.  Kept up by roots.  The roots are there by trees.  Small trees.  Smaller than one imagines thirty foot wall of dirt.  The tide’s high.  Water laps like a tease.  But it’s colder than ever now.  You can hear voices calling and oddly enough a steady drum beat keeping the tempo.

It’s colder than ever now.  The rain hits the leaves of the big trees surrounding us like walls of a building.  The water under the cliff walls speaks to us as if it’s calling us to come down.  The ground is soft with perished leaves, wet and soggy from the midnight rain.  The air speaks to us with a light breeze from the water making the branches whisper on the douglas firs.

The branches whisper on the dougas firs.  The water gurgles out an absent-minded song to the rocky terrace above it.  Hushed fall voices in the treetops, crushed leaves lay, they are remnants of past talks – the old conversations of wooden sentinels that guard the bay.  They stand there, fixed like mountains, they hunker down in the rain.  Patter, Patter and clicks and pops of twig and branch and leaf and rocks and the small pinging songs of the rain echo in waves around us.

I found the triangle from my dreams, I feel like I should climb the cliff like the tunnel and talk to death, the two children, and watch the wooden crosses turn to stone headstones.  The water has ninety degree currents, and it’s like I run into my lover, we are woven.  We are woven.  I reach and grab for the cliff from which I fell, and wake the gnarled fist to be permenant.

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